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Joe
I hope I'm not making this up, but the Designer has always been
something that kept me (us) tied to CODE/400 if we wanted a graphical
designer. It was always presented both as a replacement for SDA AND for
CODE Designer.
Also, the need to bundle CODE came primarily from not having something
in RSE for doing screens and reports. This was a common talking point, IIRC.
I've never heard anyone ask that Screen Designer "emulate" the CODE one.
I've seen both (Technology Preview {TP} vs CODE) and found that
everything in CODE was in the TP in some form. Hardly anything was new.
Seriously!! The underlying code base? Of course, but not the interface
in many aspects. Same way to add fields, same concept of screens,
handling indicators, etc. The palette is a cool addition, I think.
I'm looking at both now - on the left in CODE is a list of screens - in
Screen Designer on the left is the same list - the caption of the first
one is "All records" where the caption in CODE is the server and library
and file and member.
There is a palette - yes, a palette - on the left of the tab where each
"screen" is displayed in CODE. It's not drag & drop but it has the same
things as the TP does.
In CODE you have several items above a screen - properties. Some are
buttons, some are dropdowns. One lists the formats that comprise the
screen - hey, TP does that, too! TP uses a properties view, in the lower
left of my screen in WDSC. That view has several tabs that are the same
stuff as in CODE.
So when I looked at the TP, I saw so much the same as CODE. My
conclusion was that IBM took the good things of CODE and combined them
with good things in Eclipse and came up with Screen Designer. It is hard
for me to think anything else.
I could be dreaming - as I say, I hope not!!
As someone said, I too think it'd be helpful to have a comparison of
CODE and the new Designer.
Vern
Joe Pluta wrote:
It's interesting the way this thread has gone. Screen Designer has been
around for nearly three years now, and I've never once heard anyone say
they'd like it to emulate CODE Designer until this particular
discussion. Does anyone remember such a discussion in the past? I
can't seem to find anything in the archives.
I do remember lots of discussion about the fact that Screen Designer was
originally only in the Advanced Edition of WDSC - I fought that
particular battle heavily with IBM. But the discussion always centered
on having a GUI tool so as not to have to go to the green screen - not
to replace CODE.
Joe
I'm with Vern.
Charles
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
CODE/400 also had a source view in the Designer - I am still convinced
that almost everything in the Screen Designer is based on concepts
originated in CODE years ago. Everyone I heard here was asking for a
version of CODE Designer in WDSC, not a replacement for SDA.
Vern
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